Re: [balsa] Re: Re : "clickable url" needs several clics ...

["M. Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

Hi,

  well, Windoze gets away using a 2 pixel tolerance (5 x 5 pixel square). 
No one I know of ever complained about it, so that should be ok for us, too.

Melanie

On 2004.01.11 14:51 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 01/11/2004 04:58:35 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Well, I think that, when the url is highlighted, it should get  the 
>> focus.
>> And I click it when highlighted.
> 
> But how do you select the text of the URL, say for copying?  You  press 
> the button, move the pointer, and release the button.   Balsa has to know 
> that you're selecting text, not activating the  URL.  Right now, it 
> regards *any* movement between pressing and  releasing as implying 
> selection, not activation.  We could easily  put in a small tolerance of 
> a few pixels, as Eric suggested--and  even add it as a user preference, 
> if it was deemed important/ aggravating enough.
> 
> One alternative would be to use character locations instead of  pointer 
> (x,y) coordinates: activate if the pointer is over the  same character 
> (=offset into a GtkTextView).  Of course, then you  can never select just 
> a single character... ;-)
> 
> Peter
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